Estimation and Scheduling Tips for Beginners

Let’s start with this statement: You cannot accurately estimate anything you haven’t done before. If I asked you to estimate how long it would take you to make a new […]

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Debugging Impossible Bugs: Try Making It Worse

I do a lot of debugging in my work. Not only do I debug my own code, but I also help other developers with difficult-to-diagnose bugs. Most bugs are pretty […]

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Software Architecture: How Much Is Too Much?

One aspect of my job as Stout's Chief Technologist—and one that I really enjoy—is reviewing code bases. I get to do this somewhat regularly; evaluating code for reusability, providing basic […]

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Document Like You Code

Documentation types A well-run organization that develops software, hardware, or services, requires a large amount of documentation to ensure the products and services meet their objectives and timelines of the […]

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Debugging Impossible Bugs: Try Making It Worse

I do a lot of debugging in my work. Not only do I debug my own code, but I also help other developers with difficult-to-diagnose bugs. Most bugs are pretty […]

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Programmatically Rendering PDFs from HTML using Chrome and Puppeteer

I've been a web developer for a long time, and one concept that always comes up is turning HTML into a PDF. It's a pretty natural request; HTML is a […]

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Coding Exercises for Technical Candidates

Here at Stout we screen a lot of technical candidates. Our first step is to filter the resumes. (We have little need for glass window installers despite the fact that […]

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How to Explain a Technical Subject to a Non-Technical Person: 3 Tips

When it comes to hiring or promoting a software engineer, communication skills can be used as the tie-breaker between two equally talented people. But that term—communication skills—is so broad that […]

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Edge Cases: A Persistent Dilemma

One of the first “lessons learned” for novice programmers is that the time required to program the typical usage scenarios can be fairly accurately estimated, but the time required for […]

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How to Survive Being "Hit by a Bus"

I'm not sure where it came from or how it started, but that's the euphemism we use. As in, "Can we still deploy if Joe is hit by a bus?" […]

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